Don Cole's Archive
Envelope 1 – Wills and Inventories
(Note - those wills that have inventories attached are highlighted below with an *)
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B1
- Richard Kirke (1659)
- Richard Hobson (1673)
- Christopher Kirke (1680)
- Isabella Waite (1689/90) *
- John Oddy (1697) *
- Thomas Harper (1716) *
- William Nicholson (1723) *
- John Driver (1728) *
- William Oddy (1730) *
- George Wood (1734) *
- John Smith (1745)
- Christopher Kirke (1763)
- Samuel Ingman (1789)
- William Hobson (1807)
- William Hobson (1818)
- Benjamin Hobson (1826)
- Inventories without wills - William Wilson (1718), Francis Harper (1727) Joseph Padgett (1767)
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B2
- Richard Arkdale (1590)
- Robert Roger (1549)
- Richard Wood (1568)
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B4
- William Clough (1707) *
- John Midgeley (1691/2) *
- Samuel Wetherill (1717) *
- Andrew Scatchard (1725) *
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B5
- Tobias Furnish (1692/3) *
- Susanna Wood (1725) *
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B6
- Richard Kirk (1613)
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B7
- Joe Broadbelt (1720) *
- William Waite (1629)
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B8
- Robert Moyser (1690) *
- Solomon Swale (1699) *
- Henry Portington (1709) *
- John Brookbank (1720) *
- Eliza Scott (1708) *
- Thomas England (1734) *
- Robert Mitchell (1663) *
Envelope 2 – Documents for the church display at Cookridge Methodist church
- Doomsday record: Adel
- Letter and ‘translation’ written by Thomas Kirk of Cookridge Hall 17th cent.
- Will of George Wood 1734 (blacksmith)
- Part of valuation of Cookridge estate (1807)
- Turnpike records (1828)
- Map of Arthington map (1849)
- Creskeld Estate (1988)
- Will of Richard Wardman (nunnery) (1559)
- Plans of Wood Top Farm
- A plan by Johnathan Taylor (1804)
- A plan of an estate situate in the parishes of Addle and Harewood by Jonathan Taylor
- A plan of the Cookridge estate by W. F. Wormald (1906)
- Terrier map of Adel rectory
- Tithe map (1849)
- Thomas Jeffery’s map (1770)
Envelope 12 – assorted archival material
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Naylor family records from Adel registers (1607-1809)
- Tax records for Jacob Naylor (1777)
- Tax records for John Naylor (1807)
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The landscape of Cookridge and Tinshill recreated by Don Cole (1660)
- Cup and ring marks in Gab Wsood
- Moseley Wood, Mr Kirke’s creation in the 17th century
- Lawns Wood – It’s all in the Name, research and reminiscences by Don Cole
- Plans and conditions of the sale of the Cookridge Estate (including Cookridge Hall), 20th April 1919
- Arthington during the 1939-45 War: excerpts from Parish Council minutes
- Arthington Grange – a short history of the farm and some of its tenants
- Life in Cookridge Towers, memories of Hicks and Binns
- Extract from the codicil annexed to the will of Robert Jackson (1730)
- Don Cole’s sketch books of various stone pillars in Adel, Arthington, Cookridge and Eccup
- Deed: - Dade to Stanhope re: Moseley (1678)
- Lease Thomas Arthington to John Craven (1754)
- Marriage settlement: - Dade to Stanhope/ T. Kirke (1652)
- Compensation paid relating to Halfway Farm (1954)
- Cookridge Hall management (Nov. 1955)
- Creskeld Estate (Feb. 1988)
- Sale details of Dacre, Son & Hartley, relating to the sale of Park Cottage South, Arthington Lane, Arthington
- Adel Mill: - details of some of the early tenants (1540-1848)
- Extracts from Eccup School logbook (1889, 1894, 1894 and 1904)
- A rough plan of High Farm Buildings (as they were when Don and Sheila Cole were there)
- Lease of Glebe at Eccup (1737/8)
- Plan of Leeds produced and published by ‘Geographia’ (no date, circa 1920?)
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